Oprah to broadcast from D.C. for inauguration week

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December 5, 2008|By MARK SILVA

Oprah Winfrey will be hosting the TV show that goes by her name from Washington, D.C., during the week of President-elect Barack Obama's inauguration.

"I'm going to break that right here -- that's where I'm going to be," Winfrey told Access Hollywood. "See you there . . . . that's the place to be." The queen of daytime TV has reached out to the Opera House at the Kennedy Center for Performing Arts for a stage for The Oprah Winfrey Show.

Winfrey, one of Obama's best-known backers, campaigned for him early in his race for the Democratic presidential nomination and cried for him on a stranger's shoulder at his acceptance speech in Chicago on Election Night.